PEF settles 3-year pact

The second largest state-employees union, the 54,000-member Public Employees Federation, announced a tentative 3-year contract with the Cuomo administration on October 19 with 2-percent raises in each year of the agreement.

PEF President Wayne Spence said the union’s contract team “worked hard and tirelessly over the past two years on this contract” and that it unanimously recommended ratification. At press time, other details of the agreement had not been released.